Intercultural weeks
20 September to 5 October 2025
Call for participation
The Intercultural Weeks in Chemnitz start on 20 September under the motto "Home in the heart - diversity in Chemnitz" - a two-week series of events that has been setting an example for peaceful and good coexistence in our city every year since 1991. The Intercultural Weeks have been organised nationwide since the 1970s.
The series of events will be opened on Saturday, 20 September at 12 noon with a colourful and intercultural programme, the Festival of Cultures, on the market square. Participation is expressly encouraged. In addition to information, artistic and sporting activities, culinary offerings and creative contributions are also welcome.
The opening with the Festival of Cultures is also part of the "haamit heimaten" festival in Chemnitz, which is being organised by the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 from 18 to 21 September 2025. After all, Chemnitz is home to people from over 140 nations. The festival "haamit heimaten" is a contribution to the German-language decentralised festival "heimaten", initiated by the House of World Cultures in Berlin.
For the subsequent series of events during the Intercultural Weeks, the participants are free to decide what they would like to offer and in what form. Theatre performances, film screenings, dance courses and concerts, country evenings, sporting events, readings and discussions with authors, panel discussions, training courses, lectures, workshops and information events on a wide range of topics, as well as exchanges between religions and much more, are intended to arouse interest in people and encounters. The variety of events on offer is intended to appeal to everyone in Chemnitz and encourage them to get involved.
The Intercultural Weeks - the festival of cultures at the opening and the series of events themselves - fit seamlessly into the programme of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025, which was opened on 18 January 2025 with an all-day programme. We are following the motto "C the Unseen" and showing that Chemnitz is a cosmopolitan and diverse city and invite all Chemnitz residents to celebrate neighbourly togetherness with us. - says Etelka Kobuß, Migration Officer for the City of Chemnitz.
Anyone interested in taking part in the opening and the subsequent two-week series of events can register until 31 May 2025 .
Background
In Chemnitz, the Intercultural Weeks are prepared and implemented by the Migration Officer in close cooperation with the Migration Advisory Board, the Social Welfare Office, the AGIUA e. V. Migration Social and Youth Work Association, the Lila Villa Women's Centre in the akCente e. V. association and with the support of numerous Chemnitz associations and initiatives.
The nationwide Intercultural Weeks are widely anchored with 5,000 events at more than 500 locations throughout Germany.
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